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who: Shadowhunter cast!
what: Max wakes up in the hospital and his family comes to get him, catch all for anything else other canonmates want to do!
when: After they've all arrived
where: Hospital, other places TBD
warnings: SPOILERS for the book series and probably spoilers for the Shadowhunters TV show too just to be on the safe side, also mentions of violence

This was not where Max had been expecting to wake up. He hadn't been surprised to wake up in a hospital, but after the video he'd been shown, an alternate universe was definitely a surprise. It wouldn't be too much to wrap his head around, given time, since he'd read plenty of books with things like that in them and his family fought demons. He might have even been geeking out about it if he hadn't been so worried about his family. The last few things he remembered were demons invading Alicante, Alec running off to go find Aline, and Izzy going to get her stele while leaving him with Sebastian... Sebastian who had attacked him with a hammer. He remembered hearing someone coming up behind him, turning and seeing Sebastian swinging it at him, then everything going black. The next thing he'd known, he was waking up here.

He'd asked about his family after he'd been shown the video and while they hadn't known anything about most of them, they did mention an Alec Lightwood that had arrived at the same time he did and asked if they were related since they had the same last name. Once Max confirmed that was indeed his brother, the person had said they would send someone to go find Alec and tell him Max was here. While he'd been waiting, they'd asked him some questions and had him do some bioscan. When they'd asked about any special abilities he had that would be biologically-based, he'd been reluctant to answer at first but had eventually given in, holding onto his stele tightly so they wouldn't take it away.

They hadn't and Max was now holding it and the toy soldier he'd been gripping when Sebastian had attacked him tightly in his hands, waiting in a chair in the room he'd woken up in while looking out the window. His glasses were okay but he'd been given a new pair of clothes to wear, having been told his old ones had been destroyed. He might have also enjoyed the view more if he still wasn't worrying about his family. He hoped Alec would be able to tell him more about what had happened.

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After spending most of the morning outside, alternating between keeping the older Lightwood siblings company and doing his best to comfort them all, it's finally Magnus' turn to see Max. He's not sure what to expect since he'd only met him once before at his rune ceremony party, and that night had been tainted by problem after problem. He didn't hold it against Max, though, knowing that he'd been exposed to his parents' conversations about him and Alec as well as Jace. Children were sponges, soaking up everything around them whether or not adults gave credit to their level of awareness.

But it's possible that Max needs healing, and besides the necessity of seeing him Magnus knows that they'll be spending more time together. There's no way that Alec, nor any of the rest of them, would let Max live anywhere except within their Lightwood-Bane family. Stepping into the room, he smiled at Max as he came closer to where he sat. "Hello, Max, how are you feeling?" he asked before laughing and shaking his head. "I bet you're getting tired of hearing that."

Max watched Magnus with much intrigue as he came in. Alec assured him that Magnus was a good person even if he was a warlock, and if it's someone Alec actually married, Max trusted that Magnus couldn't be a bad guy. Otherwise Alec would have taken him out instead of marrying him. He'd never been able to talk to an actual warlock before, so he was bustling with questions to ask.

He held off on them for now though. "Hello; I'm fine." He had indeed been asked that question a lot and he was more than ready to leave the hospital and go explore this new place, but Magnus being there made him more interested in knowing more about the warlock for the time being. "I didn't know you and my brother were married." He didn't say it with any rudeness or accusation in his tone, just that same curiosity that his expression held.

Though the weight of eyes on him was something that Magnus was familiar with, he sensed nothing more than curiosity coming from Max's gaze. It made sense, given that he was a young Shadowhunter raised primarily in Institutes and Idris. Though he had started his training, it was safe to assume that he had no real experience with Downworlders. There was a chance, too, that he was interested in Magnus specifically due to his ties with his brother.

Sitting in one of the chairs that had been pulled up next to the hospital bed, Magnus glanced over at Alec with a smile and then back to Max. "I think it was a surprise to most of your family," he said, relaxing a little, "That's sort of the point of eloping. No one can stop you."

"How did you guys meet?" he asked curiously, looking back and forth between Alec and Magnus. He guessed that Alec probably had had some sort of dealing with Magnus but he'd never heard about it before.

That wasn't really the type of question he'd been expecting, but it made sense that Max would be curious about it. After all, they hadn't really talked at length at his party. "I first saw him across a crowded room at a party," he said, his eyes once again turning towards Alec with a flash of gold before settling on Max once again. "It was very romantic. He originally attended as support for Jace and Clary, but he caught my eye."

Any other question Max might have been thinking of to ask was derailed for a moment when he saw that flash of gold, eyes widening in response. "Whoa, what did you just do with your eyes...?"

At times, Magnus didn't realized he would drop the glamour that made his eyes brown. Most often it would happen when focused on another spell, or his concentration was made to slip, but it had become a habit when sharing loving looks with Alec, too. "Usually, there's a glamour over my eyes," he explains without explaining what a glamour is; Max should know. "They're one of my warlock marks."

"Really?" He knew what a glamor was, of course, and also what a warlock mark was. "Can I see them?" he asked curiously, already having moved on past the fact that this was his brother's new husband. If Magnus was married to Alec, then he couldn't be a bad guy, and that made it simple enough for Max to accept that that made Magnus family.

It was the same curiosity he'd been met with before, and yet with more open childish wonder and less calculating warrior interest. Chuckling, he let the glamour fade from his eyes to reveal the bright golden irises and verticle slit pupils. "What do you think?" he asked, unable to completely ignore the fact that he'd always been scared to show the mark to Shadowhunters before meeting Alec.

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